navigation.activation

[noamr]

Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification

• Specification title: Navigation Activation
• Specification or proposal URL (if available): Navigation API : "activation info" whatwg/html#9856
• Proposal author(s) (@-mention GitHub accounts): @noamr
• Caniuse.com URL (optional):
• Bugzilla URL (optional): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777171
• Mozillians who can provide input (optional):

Other information

Navigation Activation exposes information about the most recent cross-document navigation (aka "activation").
It exposes the old URL, new URL, and navigation type.
This is mainly useful for cross-document view transitions.

Navigation Activation is namespaced to the navigation API and uses the NavigationHistoryEntry interface, but other than that it's a somewhat self-contained.

[zcorpan]

@smaug---- @petervanderbeken

[smaug----]

I and @petervanderbeken went through the proposal again and think it is a reasonable addition to Navigation API.

[zcorpan]

No need for a dashboard entry IMO since https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#navigation-api exists.